Russia
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Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson with Nima: Trump Declares WAR on Russia in Alaska
Thursday, 14 August 2025 — Global South Continue reading
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Bear, Dragon, Elephant, Toucan, Nightingale stare down Goldfinger
Of course it’s all about Alaska. Here’s what’s in play. But it’s the shadowplay that’s even more exciting. Continue reading
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Pepe Escobar: The Bear and the Eagle Face-Off in Alaska
All eyes on Alaska. The Bear-Eagle face-off is part of an astonishing acceleration of history in the summer of 2025. Two weeks after Alaska, there’s the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) annual summit in Tianjin, China. India’s Narendra Modi and Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian will join, among others, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at the same table.… Continue reading
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Seyed M. Marandi: New U.S. Frontline Against Iran & Russia?
Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a professor at Tehran University and a former advisor to Iran’s Nuclear Negotiation Team. Prof. Marandi outlines Iran’s concerns with the recent US-negotiated peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which includes US control over Syunik Road for 99 Years – on Iran’s border. WIll this be used for economic containment or… Continue reading
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Radhika Desai: Neoliberalism, Economic War, BRICS & a New Russia
Radhika Desai discusses how neoliberalism has financialised and de-industrialised Western economies. The economic war to reverse the decline of the West has instead intensified the decline, and BRICS has become an important institution to construct an alternative post-neoliberal economic system. Russia’s shift from Europe to Eurasia is at the centre of the new international economic… Continue reading
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Putin CRUSHES Trump’s Alaska Trap, Ukraine & NATO FURIOUS w/ Larry Johnson & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
Vladimir Putin & Donald Trump are set to meet in a matter of days, and the panic has already begun over Russia’s overpowering hand. Former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson & former Chief of Staff and US Army Colonel Lawrence join the show to discuss who really has the upper hand in these talks and what… Continue reading
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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇪🇺 US Vice President JD Vance Once Again Performing “The US and Europe are Split” + “the US Wants Out of Ukraine” Theater
1. this is AMERICA’S WAR in the first place (one Trump himself helped precipitate) – and the US controls Europe’s senior leadership no matter what theater they perform to try and convince the public otherwise; Continue reading
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Yalta 2.0: escalation logic and mutual threat perception between Moscow and Washington
On August 15, 2025, in Alaska, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will prepare to negotiate, in a Yalta 2.0 format, the contours of a new strategic order – with Ukraine and Europe at the center of the discussions, absent from the banquet where their fate is nevertheless being decided. Continue reading
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Missiles Return to Europe: How NATO’s Advances Reignited Russia’s Red Lines
With the collapse of the INF Treaty and NATO’s eastward reach, Cold War specters awaken on European soil—and Moscow prepares its answer. Continue reading
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Brian Berletic: Is the U.S. Setting a Trap for Russia in Alaska?
Brian Berletic is a former US Marine, author and international relations expert. Berletic discusses the upcoming meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska, and the history of US deception and faking diplomacy to regroup. Continue reading
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🚨 LIVE with Alastair Crooke August 7th 11am eastern 8am Pacific!
Thursday, 7 August 2025 — Danny Haiphong We talk Trump’s escalations with Russia, Witkoff Putin meeting, nuclear tensions exploding over Ukraine, diplomacy, war and g3nocide in Gaza plus much more! Continue reading
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Russian Gains Mount in Ukraine as Panic Grows in Washington
Wednessday, 6 August 2025 — The New Atlas Russian forces have taken the heavily-fortified, strategically-located city of Chasov Yar west of Bakhmut; Russian forces are continuing the encirclement of Pokrovsk, another heavily-fortified, strategically-located city in the Donbass region; Russian missile and drone strikes continue to grow in scale, frequency, and efficacy as military industrial production Continue reading
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Trump is taunting India but is an emperor without clothes
The American Nobel laureate Pearl S. Buck handed down to the aspirant-Nobel American president Donald Trump a golden maxim but he seems oblivious of it — although his life is made of a surfeit of fiction. She wrote in her gripping historical novel The Living Reed: A Novel of Korea, “It is easy to destroy… Continue reading
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Chinese foxes, American sharks, European rodents
The fourth plenary session of the Communist Party of China has been scheduled by the Politburo for October (no precise data announced; probably four days during the second half of October). That’s when Beijing will be deliberating the lineaments of its next five-year plan. The plenum should be attended by over 370 Central Committee members… Continue reading
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Putin SHUTS DOWN Trump’s Threat, Ukraine Under HEAVY FIRE w/ Patrick Henningsen & Alex Krainer
Trump just reduced his ultimatum to Putin from 50-days to “10-12 days” and Putin’s response is shocking. Patrick Henningsen and Alex Krainer join this livestream to cover exactly how Russia is maneuvering Trump’s threats, as well as a full breakdown of geopolitical developments from Gaza to the Red Sea and beyond. Continue reading
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Ukraine Proxy-War: Trump Picks Up Where Biden Left Off
“Despite promises to end foreign entanglements, the Trump administration has intensified the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine as part of a broader strategy to preserve American global dominance and confront rising multipolar powers.” Continue reading
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The draft “Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Security Guarantees” that Russia presented to Biden in December 2021, outlined a series of far-reaching security demands, reflecting Russia’s intent to reshape the post-Cold War security architecture in Europe. Here are the key points from the published text: Continue reading
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Putin, China & Iran SHOCK Trump, War on BRICS Escalates | Pepe Escobar, Ghadi Francis & Ali Abunimah
Trump has tapped NATO to engage in a three-front war on BRICS, but Putin, China and Iran’s latest move just crushed it. In the first hour, geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar discusses the shocking moves being made in the struggle for a BRICS-led multipolar world, then Ghadi Francis and Ali Abunimah join for an update on… Continue reading
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Scott Ritter: U.S. Will Remove Zelensky & Europe Becomes Irrelevant
Scott Ritter is a former Major, Intelligence Officer, and UN Weapons Inspector. Ritter argues that NATO is rapidly moving toward defeat in Ukraine, and it is currently out of options. The US has seemingly decided to remove and replace Zelensky, while Europe has bet everything on this war – its military power, economy, societal stability,… Continue reading
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Russian Arms Overwhelm Ukraine as War Escalates Following False US “Peace” Offers
The US proxy war in Ukraine predictably escalates following false US “peace” offers (Minsk 3.0) Russia has ignored; Continue reading
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